For the first time since she was suspended, Gallaudet University administrator Angela McCaskill speaks out. The university’s chief diversity officer was placed on administrative leave last week for signing the petition to put same-sex marriage on the November ballot.

An attorney for Gallaudet University’s chief diversity officer who has been placed on leave for signing a petition to put Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on the ballot says she only signed it so the issue could be decided by the democratic process.

A storm of controversy is brewing in Maryland’s same-sex marriage campaign. A college administrator has been placed on administrative leave for signing the petition to put same-sex marriage on the November ballot.